Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“So, whether the aliens explore with chemistry or with radio waves, they might come to the same conclusion: a planet where there’s… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I am embarrassed to admit (don’t tell anybody) that when I first saw the interior doors on the Enterprise slide open automatically… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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